it still goes to the children of each religion. which is what you know a child being shown that their children are being killed their ability to return and you are. in serbia usability in britain where we can see. the second reactor experiences a potential meltdown in japan and fears of a nuclear fallout grow twenty two people have already been exposed to radiation and nearly two hundred thousand people are being evacuated as radiation levels appear to be rising. it certainly isn't a global level of violence that would normally marriage intervention but some western states paint a different picture in this issue of the situation there in libya calling for a no fly zone and seeking possible military intervention or we investigate the real situation in the country. and lifting the reset to new heights the u.s.

vice president visits moscow backing to bid for russia's world trade organization membership. live from our studios in moscow we are watching r t thanks for joining us now there have been reports that the second reactor of japan's fukushima nuclear power plant is experiencing a partial meltdown it comes just a day after a powerful blast rocked another reactor at the site following the failure of cooling systems caused by friday's massive earthquake with a number of people i've met at the hospital suffering exposure to radiation is said to be rising and maybe a series of aftershocks continue to rock the country archy's ivor bennett has the latest from tokyo. actually the city is still shaking you're being

a number of aftershocks just this morning event one the last one about twenty minutes ago the whole room was shaking as i walked downstairs the line if things were shaking and it's very hard to actually walk in a straight line you're swaying and injuring a night there and couple of aftershocks so strong in fact that it will be out there and i could actually hear the room creaking and things are falling from the roof outside so the city is still experiencing aftershocks nandan actually inflicting damage on the city now and from what i've seen that this very little surface damage here but the transport infrastructure is definitely still suffering when trying to arrange transport now to sendai to the epicenter where that the quake hit days ago . all the trains none of the trains going to the north of the country they're not working and they're still very unsure of what actual transport links they can run with all these aftershocks still happening so even as far away as tokyo still

suffering the after effects local authorities fear that a number of the people that have been affected by the radiation and the spilled out into the atmosphere could actually rise to one hundred sixty as they actually now analyze the exposure of the people who have been evacuated from the area around the fukushima number one power plant where there is a number of reactors are still on high alert yesterday one of the reactors exploded and authorities are playing down the fears of nuclear meltdown now but if they're on high alert a number of other reactors at that fukushima number one plant and number two now because that pressure is still very very high inside a number of the reactors and they having to really let outs steam and obviously in doing so radiation to them which is building to the radiation in the atmosphere and also that could cooling system actually on one of the reactors at that second plant was knocked out again this morning and with the other plant with the other reactors into. and function is not working actually losing something in seawater even at or

around the reactor to try and cool it they've evacuated two hundred thousand people now handing out biotene to these people who have coming out of those affected areas because that's what's used to treat radiation exposure. well russia is closely monitoring the radiation on its territory closest to japan moscow also says it's ready to help tokyo with russia having vast experience in dealing with both natural and manmade disasters lark is a thought you know because when our joins us live from the capital for more that's all you can just tell us at this point what can russia do to help japan. prime minister putin has said that russia is ready to send few undoubled gas supplies to japan of course energy's very much needed in the shattered country right now as it has lost a lot of its resources electricity is down in many parts of japan as well forty two units of hardware including seven jets are ready to fly to japan together with two

hundred doctors and rescuers russia is among forty five nations worldwide on standby to send its help to japan however so far japan has accepted help from six countries only and those are united states great britain germany new zealand as truly are and south korea meanwhile here in the russian capital people are bringing flowers to the japanese embassy laying them by the embassies walls and the country's authorities are of course looking eastwards as well. we need to continue monitoring the situation in the russian far east as closely as possible i've just talked to the local authorities in the region the situation there is normal both from the point of view of people's housing and radioactivity nevertheless the situation must be closely monitored on around the clock basis. of course a russia's far east last just a few hundred kilometers over the sea from northern japan but what's the situation

like over there. well right now the radiation level of the russia is far east is normal and other countries atomic energy agency has assured that there is no danger for russia in this in the worst case scenario emission of radioactive cry. because they're not going to reach russia sure is one of the reasons for that is because the air flows around the globe move from west to east and from north to south so if you look at them out in the worst case scenario they are going to be carried into the pacific ocean but having said that russia does unfortunately have a very sad experience of dealing with the consequences over a nuclear disaster ensure no build back in one thousand nine hundred eighty six though perhaps that experience could be over the japan ok will thank you very much for that update r.t. is not valuable because our reporting from moscow. well our correspondent in ukraine alexei ownership skee looks at the similarities of the chernobyl disaster with what's happening right now in japan. obviously this white smoke coming from

the reactor building is the only ovis resemblance which we can see between the two incidents twenty five years ago which are noble and at the fukushima power plant now days that's where the similarities and the situations are basically different simply because what's the cause of the what caused them you know the the fallout eternal was caused by a massive human error what is happening now in japan is of course the result of a natural disaster the earthquake happened which happened on friday and the other big difference and this is a very significant difference between the two events is how the government has been responding to the to the events obviously twenty five years ago the government of the soviet government kept most of the information secret from the general population in russia as well as from the rest of the world and went on a massive secret can train to just safeguard this information and this was

this is something which we're going to see today because the japanese government even though we have conflicting reports coming from the islands of what's happening there and we have no certainty of what caused this last still the japanese government ordered the evacuation of people from the surrounding areas at the fukushima region but this didn't happen twenty five years ago when fifty four thousand residents of the town of tikrit next to the chernobyl power plants were kept in the south for more than twenty four hours and this of course caused some damage to them but people were subjected to a great deal of radioactive threat coming from the open reactor spare no effort in getting the job done this typical molto for construction projects in the soviet union also applied to the chernobyl nuclear power plant when construction kicked

off in. the nine hundred seventy s. it was intended to be a dream project for soviet ukraine. and the birth rate increase it was higher than all of ukraine people were given homes and there was a great demand for a work force in chernobyl so everyone worked and lighted. but this happy existence came to an abrupt end on april the twenty six nine hundred eighty six with the explosion of a reactor at the power station the very same otto used for building the plants where no effort was known to be used in the clear up of the world's worst ever manmade nuclear disasters the blazing reactor was bombarded with sand and lead measures which at first seemed very driven but which related deemed highly effective by the international atomic energy agency this action helped to contain the radiation and enable construction of a circle for goods a structure built around the reactor to seal it off for several months after the catastrophe the lessons of chernobyl have been learned by experts worldwide since

the catastrophe and will have been of assistance to those battling the latest serious nuclear accident in japan threatening entire nation with large numbers of people being evacuated because of the radiation threat something which didn't happen twenty five years ago in soviet you grain the chernobyl fallout was caused by a massive human error mistakes made by the authorities in the first hours after the blast also cost many lives but the events of twenty five years ago with what is now a sovereign ukraine have proved to be an invaluable lesson for mankind alexy rossetti see reporting from kiev ukraine and then to nuclear expert dr sancha hall says although it sure noble type zoster is unlikely to happen in japan the contamination area from the focus will grow. it seems a horrible irony that the japanese who were the first we attacked with the nuclear

weapons would now also suffer from the hands of nuclear energy and we hope that it won't be like a noble in terms of how wide it will be spread because if it was an explosion coming out of containment dome then it won't go as high as it did by it with chernobyl and so it won't spread so far but that means that the radiation will be a lot more intense in the actual area so it's good that they're evacuating at the moment but it's really not enough because the area is much larger that we're talking about that will be contaminated christopher assignments an associate professor at the tokyo university says that the radiation levels around fukushima are high and children may suffer the most from the exposure. people are being advised to stay in their homes and not drink water turn off their air conditioners . it sounds like the government is apparently prefer significant nuclear event and

relation of the city was approximately one thousand. and that is about as much really a reason as a human body should have been one year and that's being released every hour so it seems like the radiation levels in the vicinity of the reactor are quite high the biological effects will depend on a number of factors of course the secret is a measure of biological impact rather than. just nuclear energy so for example if you are a larger person you have a larger body mass absorbing that same amount of radiation that suggests that the most vulnerable people will be children and the elderly people with a smaller body mass and or more we could body. i believe that measure of the one thousand my perceiver it's was quite close to the reactor so obviously the main concern is for emergency workers firefighters and military in the area people

further away are probably not at so where your risk of course the. radiation is carried by particles in the air. diminishes geometrically with distance. they stay with r.t. throughout the day as we keep you abreast of all the latest developments in japan. let's turn now to libya the arab league has backed the idea of a no fly zone over the country after an emergency summit of member states agreed to ask the u.n. security council so impose the restrictions suggested by the u.k. and france as archy's policy of reports the actual situation there in libya is far from the way it's being presented. there is a lot more haggling on the international stage of the minutes and no signs that the bargaining taking place out of the market shuts you close really noddy's loss rate and any of the evidence you just escalate the country and the argument is obviously

just so foreign intervention is needed seems to ring a little hollow. but that's not. normally merrit intervention gadhafi has offered. but only if the camera leads stay well away from any of the opposition but it's a live picture in opposition strongholds ramadan bricky was forced to close the bin cos office. because pressure from rebels was to print the evolution of. nothing. and. this is. what they think and what they believe and many did ask supporters fear that while he may be winning the war with the rebels he's information back here insurance or outside

tripoli governor says she's muscled and angry by the. people in the town. right. now not normal life and. calm on the streets. yes. there are events unfolding right now in ivory coast where there is also conflict an armed conflict between rebels and the government but nobody seems to be thinking of that it's only because fashionable attention is focused on libya the only reason there is a sort of libya's bath or your oil you think we'd be in iraq if their major ads were there was broccoli. fixed. it's just. chance. and you are

columnist and historian abortion mollett from washington d.c. believes that there is absolutely no justification for anyone it's a medal and libya's affair this is reminding me every day more of bosnia in the early one nine hundred ninety s. when a clear cut case for intervention couldn't be made in the public was not very much in a mood for war so one had to be sort of created gradually by gradual involvement and it started with the you know humanitarian of the agents and observers and scouting missions and continued through the north fly zone and ended up being full blown war several years later right now invoking the responsibility to protect doctrine is basically going to make it obvious to the entire world that this is a license to meddle doctoring there is absolutely normal. possible justification for the united states or even the e.u. to get involved in libya just nothing in their charters or just there's nothing

that would justify this. the deputy editor of style to magazine in london says that even the talk of foreign intervention is affecting the situation on the ground in the. there is actually a bit of competition going on between the major western powers about who can seeds and who can seem to be the most kind of moral the most ethical on the world stage so front for the moment is really seems to be driving things that mobile but then the british prime minister and foreign secretary been talking about the possibility of insurrection as well usually these things are a sign of things not going well for politicians or home that they were they want to try and find some stories some issue on the world stage that can provide a bit of destruction provide them with a sense of they've got some sense of purpose which is lacking in the domestic sphere so that i wouldn't think too much about the oil situation one of two things i was even the saber rattling is going to have a very bad effect on this on the ground in libya i mean just the possibility of

intervention. one on one hand i mean that gadhafi is going to have to work much faster to try and end the uprising before the possibility arises and on the other hand the rebels will now be looking at a broad for to try to resolve this conflict rather than looking for their own ability to do with this situation and i think that's a very very bad side as well i think that's going to make a mess regardless of even if one shot is fired from from from the west the possibility of it happening is already distorting things on the ground in an hour's time marty talks to russia's voice and made to the immediate i goes in he says certain countries are pushing to get involved in libya because they're reliant on its own resources. but i'm going to. i think if libya were just a banana growing country there wouldn't be so much interest in his domestic situation including in the humanitarian sphere of course libya is

a big enough energy supplier to europe certain countries like italy for example are heavily dependent on libyan to liberate others are not so much dependent but either way libya's share is considerable we know the needle for example puts energy security matters at the top of its. and agenda for this reason i think that this factor has a most direct bearing on the speed of the west decision making regarding libya. of the u.s. vice president was in high spirits when he arrived on a two day visit to moscow earlier this week his main goal was to encourage the continued reset between the two countries while libya understandably made it into the discussions the majority of the visit was focused on a boosting trade the talks may have been serious issues but the mood was certainly light and joked with joe biden that he hopes the u.s. vice president won't be working on russia's bid for the w t o membership all the way to the end of his career or the russian leader was promised that washington is

doing all it can to make the accession happen democratic strategist chris that the u.s. says the u.s. needs russia's support and this visit highlights that. i think that the existing relations are on a track moving forward no matter what the little disruptions are and i think that's very important and i think that's part of what biden's trip is all about and then obama's trip will be all about which is that even if we have set backs along the way the message has to be very clear to the russian people and to the american people that russia in the united states now have more in common than we do we do that separates us we need that russia to be part of the we need a free trade with russia i think that that messages being sent to anything the united states does it will clearly take into account how the russian government the russian leadership feels about things and i'm sure that vice president biden is making that very clear to to the russian leadership that whatever we do in libya

we're going to try to make sure that we cooperate with you and we're not in conflict with you the other thing of course is that we're coming up to the tenth anniversary of nine eleven i don't think it's lost on the american people that the russian people have been victimized by islamic terrorists and we share that in common and i think the metaphor for that is this idea of a missile defense although it's aimed at states like iran and others i think that it's a symbol that we stand united against terrorists and that's another thing so while we might disagree on things like libya i think going forward the relationship moves forward no matter what the little setbacks might be. charles scription a political expert from the u.s. council on foreign relations says that russia and the u.s. are evolving and their relationship is changing and compasses more issues and i think in many respects what we're seeing here is the closing of phase one and the opening of phase two of this so-called reset phase one was all about security and

high politics it was a drought the new start treaty the missile defense iran afghanistan and that really came to a close when the russian parliament and the u.s. senate ratified start and now i think what we're doing is more societal contact cross investment that crosses the borders people traveling more between the two countries are trying to build the confidence that the vice president was just talked to security is obviously going to be there both in north africa and trying to get us russian cooperation on missile defense but i think we're now seeing the relationship broaden out in deeper and its social route well let's get more now and other international news making the headlines this hour six people have been killed and hundreds injured in violent clashes between police and anti-government protesters in yemen youth already stormed a makeshift camp of thousands of demonstrators in the capital so they use live bullets tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowd of protesters responded

with a hail of rocks and live ammunition the demonstrators have been camping in the area for weeks advancing the end of president assad is already you. are referring to a bus accident in new york has claimed the lives of fifteen people and seriously injured another ten because she was carrying at least thirty one passengers when it slid on its side and hit a pole well that will slice the bus in half along the windows tearing the roof top of the vehicle with the driver told investigators he swerved to avoid a. trailer witnesses claimed the boss had been traveling at high speed the vehicle was returning from a casino outside the city. earlier this week russia's republic of chechnya hosted an all star match widely seen as a major step forward for the region a team of brazilian football veterans arrived for a charity game against

a team captain by chechen leader. explores how a former reader for a military conflict is leaving its bloody past behind and showing a new side all thanks to sport. it must rank as one of the more curious fixtures in football history at a press conference late the night before chechen is leader ramzan kadyrov spoke of his excitement at the arrival of the opposition it's a real holiday for laughs fans who have been waiting for this event for such a long time it's an exciting day and i know that many of those who left the republic years ago coming back to enjoy the match but many reporters there doubted a team of brazilian veterans would really come to play in chechnya the next day we were greeted at the airport by a sea shake with virus style can tear off faces shouting supporters. walking into this cult like scene came the brazilian team looking a little amused the chechens however were ecstatic. i can't believe this is

happening we couldn't even dream of an event like this happening before us come to grozny especially for this mine and i think it will raise the sad memories of the past and everything will be great. five years ago this match would have been unthinkable and it was in ruins after two military campaigns from the mid one nine hundred ninety s. following an insurgency it was in this very stadium the rams and corrodes father was blown up at the cape of thought the area is still subject to high levels of security against the threat of terrorism as it moved towards normality after years of conflict since which cost me has come a long way at the gate of things change every day we see new facilities being built and people understand that they have to forget the past and move on come kickoff time the stadium was bursting at the sea brazil scored an easy first goal followed by repeated attempts by the chechens to get one back. who knows what was said in

the changing room but could hear of it made sure he was the center of attention. despite missing two penalties he eventually managed to get himself in the school should the game ended six four to brazil. in addition to the digital just it was a very can support in school though not can we do again is again we wanted to win but we lost the brazilian so surely and the brazilian team is the strongest in the world today for the dog they were keen to stress they were only a charity and a visit so chechnya make world headlines again but this time the sport confirm. it will take more than just a football must chase the specter of war on terrorism away from chechnya and the north caucasus but for now in the spirit of friendly competition everyone here agrees it's a step or cake in the right direction some thoughts of nazi chechnya. a more news coming your way the top of the hour i'll be back shortly with the headlines.

wealthy british style. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy

with mike's cars are run no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report on our. if . the russians would be soon which brightened if. someone from feinstein. who's from starts on t.v. don't come. for

the full script we've got it firsthand the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. fifty. fifty five ft five. in thailand elegies available in the. square so it's a luxury hotels bangkok's on the landmark are told by michael. chertoff. princess hotel marriott coachella hotel banco by yuki sweet hotel one called the imperial queen's park married resort and spa its own shores and photo new supply and spawn just said from the hotel's golden cliff results from the endo to be a one world cruise hotel but discovery peach hotel children.